An price, quantity or amount that an individual uses or includes in a report or price quote, with little or no thought involved beforehand. Derived from the older proverb, "pulling a <something> out of your ass". More commonly used as an abbreviation.
Engineer #1: "Hey, we need a price quickly on the gazebo to finish the estimate, give me an ass-pulled number (APN)! "
Engineer #2: "Yeah, use $20,000..."
Numbers made up for a particular example that have no meaning beyond being placeholders for the given example. That is, numbers which have been pulled "out of your ass".
"This example shows how the cache lines are organized, but all these addresses are assnumbers."
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”